On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: > centos 5 had modprobe.conf entries for eth0 and if present eth1. > something like: > alias eth0 forcedeth > alias eth1 e1000e > > For the new centos 6 (I have the rhel 6 client installed on my laptop) > the modprobe.conf file is gone. Which is fine. I understand files can be > created in /etc/modprobe.d and server the same purpose. > > My question is I dont see (doing a grep) any eth0 alias's in the files > in /etc/modprobe.d/* > > My reason is when I have a system with 2 ethernet cards I used to have > to specify the order > of loading. Like: > install e1000e /sbin/modprobe forcedeth; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install > e1000e > > So I used to grep for eth0 and eth1 do get the module names from > modprobe.conf. Pseudo one-word answer: udev